I Feel Like Such a Wimp
I had lunch today with an older brother, a pastor who was born in Cuba and pastored and planted churches there before serving the Lord in Spain and the US.
Points of interest:
- When he converted to Christ at age 17, the government sent three soldiers in full fatigues to persuade him that God didn't exist. They offered him a spot in the university and other perks if he would just agree with them. When he refused, they conscripted him into the army against his will.
- He told me he's been convinced of divine election since the moment he first believed. Nothing was more clear to him than that God had brought him to Christ unilaterally. The Baptist seminary in Cuba threatened to refuse him his degree unless he renounced Calvinism, but he called their bluff and they let him graduate.
- He taught himself English so that he could read Matthew Henry, Charles Spurgeon, and John Gill because those were the only Reformed resources in the seminary.
Basically, I feel like a total wimp compared to this guy. I need to stop complaining.
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